Rejection Rejected!
This strip is sadly more autobiographical than most.
I’m looking to expand my career, and one of the first steps is to get an internship. I have connections (for once), and it should’ve been a slam dunk. Except I gave what must have been the worst interview of my life.
I left the meeting feeling great. But as I drove home, I became more and more sure that my performance sucked. That I might have even made the interviewers uncomfortable. And I certainly didn’t distinguish myself from any other candidate — and there are many ways that I could have. I knew this a few months ago, that I had huge advantages to offer, and had articulated it beautifully to myself. But on interview day, none of the right stuff came out.
The saving grace — and it’s not much — is that I talked with someone else who knows the program well, who said, in essence, “Dude, you don’t want to be there.”
A few days later I got a cold, impersonal e-mail saying I wouldn’t be.
As much as I’d like to do a Mr. Bunny and blame them, it was all me.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Dude… I have the feeling that you aren’t supposed to be there.
And when you find that other place to work that is SO MUCH BETTER than this first place, I will be happy to say, “I told you so.”
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Hey Dr. Bunny: My bride said I ought to scamper over here and check your comment. Said I’d appreciate it. As usual, she was right. Thanks for the kind thought. I’m keeping my fingers crossed it all works out.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Hey man, you know that whenever one door closes, two others open up for you! Thy’re probably much better doors, too!